The Lowry is offering free and discounted theatre tickets for Salford families. If you have children under the age of 5, live in Salford and have never been to a theatre show at The Lowry as a family before, then you can join the ‘Our First Lowry’...
The ¡Viva! Festival in Manchester has grown to become the UK’s largest celebration of Spanish and Latin American culture. For its 25th year, HOME along with Acción Cultural Española’s Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE)...
It is a rare show that can bring an audience to its feet in spontaneous applause night after night. For Blood Brothers to do this for 35 years without any major production changes makes us think creator Willy Russell must have sifted some secret...
Writer and director, Mike Leigh is known for allowing the story to grow from its characters. Abigail’s Party is one of his most famous works, because what he captured in the interactions of these five neighbours is a glimpse, not just of 70’s...
Out of Joint’s new production of Andrea Dunbar’s ground-breaking 1980’s play ‘Rita Sue and Bob Too’ is as controversial as ever. Set in a run-down estate in Bradford it tells the story of two friends, Rita and Sue who each start an affair with...
In the past year Pamela DeMenthe has gone from nuclear scientist to publishing guru. Together with her polyamorous husband the couple has set up a publishing empire for her erotic fiction. Pamela likes to sell herself as the thinking woman’s E.L...
Bored of Brexit, tired of Trump and knackered by North Korea. The world is going to hell in a handcart and comedian Angela Barnes is fed up of commentating on it. She talks to Veronica Lee about confronting her natural pessimist to focus on the...
American Idiot, the punk rock opera based on Green Day’s 2004 concept album of the same name, is on its 10th anniversary UK tour. Just like the album, the show comes with a parental advisory warning for explicit content. This hasn’t become any less...
The stage version of The Girl on the Train follows the huge success of Paula Hawkins’ 2015 novel and the 2016 Hollywood movie featuring Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson. Oliver Farnworth and Samantha Womack Photo by Manuel Harlan It’s probably fair...
Dancing on Ice 2018 champion, Jake Quickenden talks to Quays Life about making his musical theatre debut in the 50th anniversary tour of musical Hair, produced by Hope Mill Theatre owners, Joseph Houston and William Whelton. Why did you want to part...
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